Art Quotes · Page 609

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person…

— Howard Jacobson

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

— Craig Owens

“For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think…

— Anonymous

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to…

— Omari Hardwick

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity…

— Amitava Kumar

If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?

— Cornelia Parker

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

— Eddie Shaw

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings'…

— Raymond Pettibon

The secret art of inviting happiness The miraculous medicine of all diseases Just for today, do not anger Do not worry and…

— Mikao Usui

“Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a…

— Phil Cheney

A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Why use an Interior Designer? Interior design is the art of enhancing interiors of home, hotel, and restaurant. CAS specializes in the…

— comelitearch

“Thus discernment, artistic or otherwise, is a critical skill, and yet it can be something we take for granted, in part because…

— Kevin Simler

“We weren’t idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with…

— John Updike

Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was…

— Jason Blum

It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending…

— Pete Gill

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark…

— Blaise Pascal

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

— Terri Clark

“Creating art is a lonely task, which is why we introverts revel in it, but when we have fans”

— Francesca Zappia

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are…

— Roger Ebert

I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

— Al Pacino

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

— Oli Thompson

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

— Criss Jami

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

— Anonymous

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better…

— Shakira

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down…

— Charles Bukowski

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an…

— Elizabeth George

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would…

— Caleb Carr

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

— Wendy Starland

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

— Kim Shattuck

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

— Massimiliano Gioni

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

— Epicurus

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract…

— Peggy Guggenheim

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his…

— Anselm Kiefer

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

— Tracy Chapman

My lips are a lot thinner than what makeup artists usually create, because they make them almost graphic.

— Lindsey Wixson

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

— John Hickenlooper

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

— Liz Phair